(August 29, 2012 at 2:23 am)cato123 Wrote: LACTATING BREASTS? You shared this with some emphasis. Are you suggesting that a child cannot be raised properly unless one parent is lactating properly? I have a three year old grandson. Despite her best efforts, my daughter couldn't breastfeed. She wanted to. The mouth/nipple interaction was intact, she just didn't lactate properly. Does she deserve your condemnation? Will my grandson now be less human because he couldn't take milk from a properly lactating tit?
Thank you - finally someone pointed it out that humans are not pulled out of a mould in some factory; the bible is essentially one-size-fits-all judgement of an off-the-peg species. If you don't happen to fit some idealised model of what a human being should be, you don't count as human. It's not something specific to generic holy books, of course, but they can hardly be accused of being progressive in recognising the true nature of the human condition.
By way of slighty-related example: one of the cornerstones of the religious objections to same-sex marriage is the inability to procreate naturally. The argument, such as it is, runs that only 'normal' couples can make babies without artificial aid, and since same-sex couples cannot do so, this is enough to make such marriages unnatural. (Yes, I feel sickened too, merely from typing that.)
Now, as many of you are aware, my Forever Princess Sam and I had been undergoing a course of IVF treatment to give us the chance of creating the baby that we so badly wanted, Sam since she was about fourteen, and which we were unable to conceive naturally for whatever reasons. Would this inability to procreate naturally mean, by fundy 'logic', we deserved to have been denied the right to get married?
(August 29, 2012 at 1:32 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I nominate this for dumbest AF.org thread ever.
Apparently you haven't seen what happened after the eminent philosopher Lion shit all over the Neil Armstrong tribute thread.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'